New pressures from outside of the academy have provoked a long-deferred reckoning with the overlapping crises of the American University.

If Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh thinks he has a difficult inflation challenge with Trump breathing down his neck for lower interest rates, he should spare a thought for Christine Lagarde, the ...

Last week, I sat at the New School, listening to the Mannes Orchestra play Charles Ives’s Variations on “America.” It opened the new Center for the American Experience, on whose advisory board I serve ...

The Congressional Budget Office released its new long-term projections for Social Security’s finances. Surprisingly, the CBO found that Social Security’s 75-year shortfall declined, from 4.71% to 4.55 ...

Being early is the same as being wrong. It’s a Wall Street adage worth keeping in mind when evaluating extravagant claims about the potential economic impact of artificial intelligence. Caution is ...

Myth: Most low-income children live in apartments. Market Reality: Nine out of ten children in low-income renting households live in homes with at least two bedrooms, and about two-thirds of these ...

“Designed in California, assembled in China,” reads the text etched on the back of most iPhones. For over a decade, the iPhone has exemplified China’s central role in producing the world’s electronics ...

Competition involving the Gulf states and Turkey in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating preexisting African conflicts and risking a regional proxy war on both sides of the Red Sea. A new era of ...

You can download a pdf copy of this report here. Note: Going forward, quarterly updates will be released of median and average first-time homebuyer age data. The ...

In a moment of gloomy geopolitical news, Ukraine has become a bright spot. Kyiv is faring better on the battlefield than at any time in years. Russia’s costs are surging even as its military gains ...

The international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modeling that are the basis for most projective climate research and the assessments of the Intergovernmental ...